WEEK 5.

[trustfellows]

WEEK 5 Tabitha Smith, Sigrun Eide, and Solf J Kimblee are all dead. Regardless of what you think of the trial or the events leading up to it, there's no denying that you can feel the dent in your numbers now. After all, ten people are gone now. It may be hard, but all you can do is keep going. Saturday is given to regrouping and sleep; come Sunday morning, the clock chimes the hour at seven o'clock and there are no dead bodies to be found, so it can be assumed that all of you are safe for the time being. That said, you'll be feeling a little groggy when you wake up; it seems you've regained something that you didn't realize you'd lost... What with Jericho's excitement at the last trial, it's evident now more than ever that the new floor that's opened up to you is a gift, a reward for a job well-done. Because while surviving is something that you'll continue to try to do of your own merit...well. Let's say that he's so, so very proud of you. PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 25 PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 24 PARTICIPANTS REMAINING: 23

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[OOC: Welcome to week five of Trustfell! Feel free to make as many top levels as you'd like and tag out to other characters! This post is for all of your interactions this week... at least until the weekend. Don't forget to save those threads for coins and the activity check!

If you'd like to get in contact with the Coordinators, you can do so through private meetings with Alena!]

Comments

[matchbreaker]

Some secret knowledge that you might want someone else to know if you forget, I suppose.

[ It's a little broad. ]

[bloodbiter]

...I don't typically keep many secrets, so it's hard to know exactly what would qualify.

[matchbreaker]

Well, then you can just say whatever. I suppose I'm just being antsy.

[ Mmm ]

... Or you can hear mine out.

[bloodbiter]

I should love to hear yours, if you would be willing to tell me.

[matchbreaker]

That's some shrewd diplomacy, Princess.

[ it's said with fair humor though. Go on, sit somewhere, let's talk. ]

It's less about me, and more about my family.

[bloodbiter]

One does grow skilled at it, after a while.

[It's said with a shade of humor as well, and she does take a seat.]

I see.

[matchbreaker]

We're a family of vampires.

[ She's going to begin there if the girl's still not read the secrets, like they got in the argument about at the end of last week. ] Myself, my son Henry, their three children. Of those grandchildren two of them have awakened to adulthood.

[bloodbiter]

[She nods.]

I remember, you told me about him and his wife.

[matchbreaker]

[ so she knew?

... Ah well. ]

I did, yes. Anju's still too young and Ren's a full adult. What this really concerns is Karin. I'd thought that she was a later bloomer, but the truth's... far stranger.

[bloodbiter]

[She tilts her head, intrigued.]

Stranger in what way?

[matchbreaker]

[ She grits her teeth, because... because it's so weird to say this out loud. It makes no sense - she was borderline hysterical when she spelled it out to Sayaka a week ago. But now... well.

She exhales through her teeth and presses on, ]

We vampires take blood - that's how we sustain ourselves and the source of our lives. But Karin... she makes blood. It flows through her body, surging up so that she needs to expel it once a month or so if she doesn't bite people and put it in them. It just... bursts out.

[bloodbiter]

...I see. That is - concerning, to say the least.

[Assuming it's different than the normal type of monthly bleeding—]

And you haven't found an explanation for why as of yet?

[matchbreaker]

No. Not to what I remember. We've only one good lead at the end of my current memories - that Henry's wife, Karin's mother - is from the Armash family. The Armashes are a hidden family, one of that the elders of the Brownlicks have kept to themselves for centuries. It must've come from them.

[ Inhale, a sharp inhale. ]

To say it's concerning is an understatement. Blood is life, like I've said over and over.

[ Karin is literally giving up her life. ]

[bloodbiter]

Does she seem to be suffering ill effects from this occurring? Is there a way for her to take in more than she is expelling?

[matchbreaker]

[ she doesn't know, she doesn't know she doesn't know. She grits her teeth and shakes his head, ]

... Of course she does! She's passed out dozens of times before now, even if the family's hidden it from me! Making blood like that, expelling it, there's no way that's going to be good for her life.

[bloodbiter]

[Rather than surprised by the outburst, she looks even more concerned.]

Then - with something so severe, that family must know a way to help her. Such a symptom in their bloodline could not escape their notice, after all, could it?

[matchbreaker]

Calera claims she doesn't know anything. Last thing I've remembered is that I've sent her off to go ask Cecelia or Daniel about it and I was going to hit the ancient books we've got in the basement. James... James picked Calera. He might've known something too, before he passed.

[bloodbiter]

Then... Certainly one of those avenues will lead to finding a cure for whatever is happening to her.

[matchbreaker]

I told you I was going to tell you a story, not that I wanted baseless optimism.

[ That's sighed out, her claws digging into the fabric of the chair. ]

[bloodbiter]

...You must believe that there is some chance they will have the answers you seek, too.

[Or she wouldn't be looking, would she? But... She gives a nod.]

I will not interrupt again.

[matchbreaker]

I must believe that. I cannot allow anything else.

[ she grinds her nail between her teeth now. What else is there to say...? ]

... My family hid it from me, all this time. I don't know why. Perhaps- perhaps they thought my hatred would be put on Karin, but that's so foolish.

[bloodbiter]

It was wrong of them to hide it from you.

[That much is obvious to her.]

[matchbreaker]

Yes it was. [ She snarls this- ] They'd only barely been handling it! They'd let a human in on our secret, like he's someone that can be trusted, she keeps going to that school and now they've tolerated a halfbreed on top of it? Sure, Henry's the head of the household now and I'll accept it but it's absurd, to let it sit like this when he life's in danger!

[bloodbiter]

...How do you know the other person they have told cannot be trusted?

[matchbreaker]

Because he's a human! ... They seem so sure of it now, but he's still human, and what's more a human who seems to think that him and Karin can be an item? That's like saying that a tucan's going to fall in love with a condor! It's just silly!